2/25/2013 ENGLISH COMMUNICATIONS 12 HAMLET. By William Shakespeare Stephanie Ramirez

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1 2/25/2013 ENGLISH COMMUNICATIONS 12 By William Shakespeare Stephanie Ramirez

2 Ramirez 2 Cast of Characters Hamlet Prince of Denmark. His father was murdered by his Uncle. His mother, Queen Gertrude married his Uncle. He must get revenge for his father s murder. King Claudius Murdered his brother and married his brother s widow to become King. Marcellus Guard. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. (1.4.98). Comment [a1]: Recognizes that something bad will probably happen. resolved. Hamlet (Ghost) Hamlet s father. Suffering in the flames of hell until his foul murder is Hamlet s best friend. Horatio

3 Ramirez 3 Laertes Son of Polonius, brother of Ophilia, and scholar studying in France. Polonius King s advisor and father to Laertes and Ophelia. Ophilia. Polonius daughter, Laertes sister, and Hamlet s girlfriend. and mother of Hamlet. Gertrude Queen of Denmark. Widow of King Hamlet, Wife of King Claudius, Rosencrantz Friend of Hamlet from the University. Guildenstern. Friend of Hamlet from the University.

4 Ramirez 4 Script / Text of Act I Hamlet (0:00 9:52) Formatted: Font: Calibri, 13.5 pt, Bold, Font color: Black ACT I SCENE I. Elsinore. A platform before the castle. FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO BERNARDO Who's there? 1 FRANCISCO Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself. Comment [72]: This line is important because the entire play looks at the question of who we are. Are we who we pretend to be? What is the difference between who we are on the inside and the outside? Are we all a little insane pretending to be sane? Are we only our actions. BERNARDO Long live the king! FRANCISCO Bernardo? BERNARDO He. 5 FRANCISCO You come most carefully upon your hour. BERNARDO 'Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco. FRANCISCO For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart. BERNARDO Have you had quiet guard? 10 FRANCISCO Not a mouse stirring. BERNARDO Well, good night. If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. FRANCISCO

5 Ramirez 5 I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who's there? 15 Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS HORATIO Friends to this ground. MARCELLUS And liegemen to the Dane. FRANCISCO Give you good night. MARCELLUS O, farewell, honest soldier: Who hath relieved you? 20 FRANCISCO Bernardo has my place. Give you good night. Exit MARCELLUS Holla! Bernardo! BERNARDO Say, What, is Horatio there? 25 HORATIO A piece of him. BERNARDO Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus. MARCELLUS What, has this thing appear'd again to-night? BERNARDO I have seen nothing. MARCELLUS Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy, 30

6 Ramirez 6 And will not let belief take hold of him Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us: Therefore I have entreated him along With us to watch the minutes of this night; That if again this apparition come, 35 He may approve our eyes and speak to it. Comment [73]: The guards want Horatio to see the ghost and say it was real. HORATIO Tush, tush, 'twill not appear. BERNARDO Sit down awhile; And let us once again assail your ears, That are so fortified against our story 40 What we have two nights seen. HORATIO Well, sit we down, And let us hear Bernardo speak of this. BERNARDO Last night of all, When yond same star that's westward from the pole 45 Had made his course to illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one,-- Enter Ghost MARCELLUS Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again! BERNARDO In the same figure, like the king that's dead. 50 MARCELLUS Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio. BERNARDO Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio. HORATIO Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.

7 Ramirez 7 BERNARDO It would be spoke to. MARCELLUS Question it, Horatio. 55 HORATIO What art thou that usurp'st this time of night, Together with that fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak! MARCELLUS It is offended. 60 BERNARDO See, it stalks away! HORATIO Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak! Exit Ghost MARCELLUS 'Tis gone, and will not answer. BERNARDO How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale: Is not this something more than fantasy? 65 What think you on't? HORATIO Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. MARCELLUS Is it not like the king? 70 HORATIO As thou art to thyself: Such was the very armour he had on

8 Ramirez 8 When he the ambitious Norway combated; So frown'd he once, when, in an angry parle, 75 He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. 'Tis strange. Comment [74]: Horatio says the ghost looks like the king when he fought and defeated king Norway. MARCELLUS Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch. HORATIO In what particular thought to work I know not; But in the gross and scope of my opinion, 80 This bodes some strange eruption to our state. MARCELLUS Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows, Why this same strict and most observant watch So nightly toils the subject of the land, And why such daily cast of brazen cannon, And foreign mart for implements of war; Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task Does not divide the Sunday from the week; What might be toward, that this sweaty haste Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day: 90 Who is't that can inform me? HORATIO That can I; At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king, Whose image even but now appear'd to us, Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, 95 Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride, Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet-- For so this side of our known world esteem'd him-- Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal'd compact, Well ratified by law and heraldry, 100 Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror: Against the which, a moiety competent Was gaged by our king; which had return'd To the inheritance of Fortinbras, 105 Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same covenant, And carriage of the article design'd,

9 Ramirez 9 His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras, Of unimproved mettle hot and full, Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there 110 Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes, For food and diet, to some enterprise That hath a stomach in't; which is no other-- As it doth well appear unto our state-- But to recover of us, by strong hand 115 And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands So by his father lost: and this, I take it, Is the main motive of our preparations, The source of this our watch and the chief head Of this post-haste and romage in the land. 120 Comment [75]: Fortinbras is a hothead and he wants to get Prince Norway and wants to get his fathers lost lands back. BERNARDO I think it be no other but e'en so: Well may it sort that this portentous figure Comes armed through our watch; so like the king That was and is the question of these wars. HORATIO A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. 125 In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets: As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, 130 Disasters in the sun; and the moist star Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse: And even the like precurse of fierce events, As harbingers preceding still the fates 135 And prologue to the omen coming on, Have heaven and earth together demonstrated Unto our climatures and countrymen.-- But soft, behold! lo, where it comes again! Re-enter Ghost I'll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion! 140 If thou hast any sound, or use of voice, Speak to me: If there be any good thing to be done,

10 Ramirez 10 That may to thee do ease and grace to me, Speak to me: 145 Cock crows If thou art privy to thy country's fate, Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O, speak! Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life Extorted treasure in the womb of earth, For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death, 150 Speak of it: stay, and speak! Stop it, Marcellus. MARCELLUS Shall I strike at it with my partisan? HORATIO Do, if it will not stand. BERNARDO 'Tis here! HORATIO 'Tis here! 155 MARCELLUS 'Tis gone! Exit Ghost We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence; For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery. 160 BERNARDO It was about to speak, when the cock crew. HORATIO And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat 165 Awake the god of day; and, at his warning,

11 Ramirez 11 Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine: and of the truth herein This present object made probation. 170 MARCELLUS It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; 175 The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. HORATIO So have I heard and do in part believe it. But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, 180 Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill: Break we our watch up; and by my advice, Let us impart what we have seen to-night Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life, This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him. 185 Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it, As needful in our loves, fitting our duty? Comment [76]: Horatio decides to tell Hamlet that they saw his father s ghost. MARCELLUS Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know Where we shall find him most conveniently. In this chapter Marcellus, Horatio, and Bernardo see the ghost everyone is so afraid of. They try to speak to it then find a plan to get its attention.

12 Ramirez 12 SCENE II. A room of state in the castle. (9:52 27:13) Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE,, POLONIUS, LAERTES, VOLTIMAND, CORNELIUS, Lords, and Attendants KING CLAUDIUS Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death The memory be green, and that it us befitted To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom Comment [a7]: He recognizes that King Hamlet s death was very recent. To be contracted in one brow of woe, Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature 5 That we with wisest sorrow think on him, Together with remembrance of ourselves. Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, The imperial jointress to this warlike state, Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,-- With an auspicious and a dropping eye, 10 With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole,-- Comment [a8]: They can t be truly happy at the funeral or sad at the wedding. Taken to wife: nor have we herein barr'd Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone With this affair along. For all, our thanks. 15 Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras, Holding a weak supposal of our worth, Or thinking by our late dear brother's death Our state to be disjoint and out of frame, Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,

13 Ramirez 13 He hath not fail'd to pester us with message, 20 Importing the surrender of those lands Lost by his father, with all bonds of law, To our most valiant brother. So much for him. Now for ourself and for this time of meeting: Comment [a9]: Fortinbras wrote letters to get his land back from Denmark. Thus much the business is: we have here writ 25 To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,-- Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears Of this his nephew's purpose,--to suppress His further gait herein; in that the levies, The lists and full proportions, are all made 30 Out of his subject: and we here dispatch You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand, For bearers of this greeting to old Norway; Giving to you no further personal power To business with the king, more than the scope 35 Of these delated articles allow. Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty. CORNELIUS VOLTIMAND In that and all things will we show our duty. KING CLAUDIUS We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell. 40 Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS

14 Ramirez 14 And now, Laertes, what's the news with you? You told us of some suit; what is't, Laertes? You cannot speak of reason to the Dane, And loose your voice: what wouldst thou beg, Laertes, That shall not be my offer, not thy asking? 45 The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth, Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father. What wouldst thou have, Laertes? LAERTES My dread lord, 50 Your leave and favour to return to France; From whence though willingly I came to Denmark, To show my duty in your coronation, Yet now, I must confess, that duty done, My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France 55 And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon. KING CLAUDIUS Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius? LORD POLONIUS He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave By laboursome petition, and at last

15 Ramirez 15 Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent: 60 I do beseech you, give him leave to go. KING CLAUDIUS Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will! But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,-- [Aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind. 65 Comment [a10]: Yes, we re related but I m not happy about it. KING CLAUDIUS How is it that the clouds still hang on you? Comment [a11]: Why are you sad? Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun. Comment [a12]: He is still sad about his father s death like a son should be. QUEEN GERTRUDE Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, Comment [a13]: Take off the black clothing. And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not for ever with thy vailed lids 70 Seek for thy noble father in the dust: Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

16 Ramirez 16 Ay, madam, it is common. QUEEN GERTRUDE If it be, 75 Why seems it so particular with thee? Comment [a14]: Why do you seem to look at one particular thing that makes you sad? Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, 80 No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: 85 But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe. Comment [a15]: I m not pretending or acting like im sad. I have more sadness in me than anybody else. KING CLAUDIUS 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father: But, you must know, your father lost a father; 90 That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow: but to persever

17 Ramirez 17 In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief; 95 It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, A heart unfortified, a mind impatient, An understanding simple and unschool'd: For what we know must be and is as common As any the most vulgar thing to sense, 100 Why should we in our peevish opposition Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd: whose common theme Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, 105 From the first corse till he that died to-day, 'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth This unprevailing woe, and think of us As of a father: for let the world take note, You are the most immediate to our throne; 110 And with no less nobility of love Than that which dearest father bears his son, Do I impart toward you. For your intent In going back to school in Wittenberg, It is most retrograde to our desire: 115 And we beseech you, bend you to remain Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye, Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.

18 Ramirez 18 QUEEN GERTRUDE Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet: I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg. 120 I shall in all my best obey you, madam. KING CLAUDIUS Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply: Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come; This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof, 125 No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day, But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell, And the king's rouse the heavens all bruit again, Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away. Exeunt all but O, that this too too solid flesh would melt 130 Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd Comment [a16]: He is wishing death upon himself. God puts punishments on people who take their own life. His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! 135

19 Ramirez 19 Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, 140 Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Comment [a17]: My dad is only two months king and he was still such an amazing king. His father, who is dead, was a God and the new king is like a Half man. Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown 145 By what it fed on: and yet, within a month-- Let me not think on't--frailty, thy name is woman!-- A little month, or ere those shoes were old Comment [a18]: He s talking about his mother because she was so weak that she couldn t even go a month without having someone in her bed. She s disrespecting his late husband. With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month: Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears 155 Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post Comment [a19]: Gertrude marries the Uncle. With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not nor it cannot come to good: But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue. 160 Comment [a20]: He cannot say anything about how he really feels about his mother marrying his Uncle.

20 Ramirez 20 Enter HORATIO, MARCELLUS, and BERNARDO HORATIO Hail to your lordship! I am glad to see you well: Horatio,--or I do forget myself. HORATIO The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever. Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you: 165 And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? Marcellus? MARCELLUS My good lord-- I am very glad to see you. Good even, sir. But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg? HORATIO A truant disposition, good my lord. 170

21 Ramirez 21 I would not hear your enemy say so, Nor shall you do mine ear that violence, To make it truster of your own report Against yourself: I know you are no truant. But what is your affair in Elsinore? 175 We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart. HORATIO My lord, I came to see your father's funeral. I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student; I think it was to see my mother's wedding. HORATIO Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon. 180 Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio! My father!--methinks I see my father. 185 HORATIO

22 Ramirez 22 Where, my lord? In my mind's eye, Horatio. HORATIO I saw him once; he was a goodly king. He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. 190 HORATIO My lord, I think I saw him yesternight. Saw? who? HORATIO My lord, the king your father. The king my father! HORATIO Season your admiration for awhile 195

23 Ramirez 23 With an attent ear, till I may deliver, Upon the witness of these gentlemen, This marvel to you. For God's love, let me hear. HORATIO Two nights together had these gentlemen, 200 Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch, In the dead vast and middle of the night, Been thus encounter'd. A figure like your father, Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe, Appears before them, and with solemn march 205 Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk'd By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes, Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distilled Almost to jelly with the act of fear, Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me 210 In dreadful secrecy impart they did; And I with them the third night kept the watch; Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time, Form of the thing, each word made true and good, The apparition comes: I knew your father; 215 These hands are not more like.

24 Ramirez 24 But where was this? MARCELLUS My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd. Did you not speak to it? HORATIO My lord, I did; But answer made it none: yet once methought 220 It lifted up its head and did address Itself to motion, like as it would speak; But even then the morning cock crew loud, And at the sound it shrunk in haste away, And vanish'd from our sight. 225 'Tis very strange. HORATIO As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true; And we did think it writ down in our duty To let you know of it.

25 Ramirez 25 Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me. 230 Hold you the watch to-night? MARCELLUS BERNARDO We do, my lord. Arm'd, say you? MARCELLUS BERNARDO Arm'd, my lord. From top to toe? 235 MARCELLUS BERNARDO My lord, from head to foot. Then saw you not his face? HORATIO O, yes, my lord; he wore his beaver up.

26 Ramirez 26 What, look'd he frowningly? HORATIO A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. 240 Pale or red? HORATIO Nay, very pale. And fix'd his eyes upon you? HORATIO Most constantly. I would I had been there. 245 HORATIO It would have much amazed you. Very like, very like. Stay'd it long?

27 Ramirez 27 HORATIO While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred. MARCELLUS BERNARDO Longer, longer. HORATIO Not when I saw't. 250 His beard was grizzled--no? HORATIO It was, as I have seen it in his life, A sable silver'd. I will watch to-night; Perchance 'twill walk again. 255 HORATIO I warrant it will. If it assume my noble father's person, I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape

28 Ramirez 28 And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all, If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight, 260 Let it be tenable in your silence still; And whatsoever else shall hap to-night, Give it an understanding, but no tongue: I will requite your loves. So, fare you well: Comment [a21]: He s going to see the ghost tonight and not tell anyone that he went to go see it. Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve, 265 I'll visit you. All Our duty to your honour. Your loves, as mine to you: farewell. Exeunt all but My father's spirit in arms! all is not well; I doubt some foul play: would the night were come! 270 Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. Exit

29 Ramirez 29 SCENE III. A room in Polonius' house. (27:13 34:57) Enter LAERTES and OPHELIA LAERTES My necessaries are embark'd: farewell: And, sister, as the winds give benefit And convoy is assistant, do not sleep, But let me hear from you. OPHELIA Do you doubt that? 5 LAERTES For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour, Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, A violet in the youth of primy nature, Comment [a22]: Hamlets attention to you is temporary and a play thing to him. It is not real. Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more. 10 Comment [a23]: It s only for now. This won t last. OPHELIA No more but so LAERTES Think it no more; For nature, crescent, does not grow alone In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes,

30 Ramirez 30 The inward service of the mind and soul 15 Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now, And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch The virtue of his will: but you must fear, His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own; For he himself is subject to his birth: 20 He may not, as unvalued persons do, Comment [724]: Can chose the life he lives because he was born a prince. Carve for himself; for on his choice depends The safety and health of this whole state; And therefore must his choice be circumscribed Unto the voice and yielding of that body 25 Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you, It fits your wisdom so far to believe it As he in his particular act and place May give his saying deed; which is no further Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal. 30 Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, If with too credent ear you list his songs, Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open To his unmaster'd importunity. Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister, 35 And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire. The chariest maid is prodigal enough, Comment [a25]: Hamlet might not need you, he s using you and it may not work out well for you. Watch out for your affection. Protect yourself If she unmask her beauty to the moon: Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes: 40

31 Ramirez 31 The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent. Be wary then; best safety lies in fear: 45 Youth to itself rebels, though none else near. Comment [a26]: Be ware, you are going to be safe if you never let anything happen to you. OPHELIA I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, 50 Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede. Comment [a27]: Don t tell me to follow a life that s really tough and difficult to go through, tell me one way and you yourself go to France and do what you please. LAERTES O, fear me not. 55 I stay too long: but here my father comes. Enter POLONIUS A double blessing is a double grace, Occasion smiles upon a second leave. LORD POLONIUS

32 Ramirez 32 Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, 60 And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee! And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 65 Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, 70 Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; 75 For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, 80 And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

33 Ramirez 33 Farewell: my blessing season this in thee! 85 LAERTES Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord. Comment [a28]: Don t judge other people, but when other people judge you take it in and consider it. Don t speak of everything that comes into your mind. Don t act unless you thought things through completely. Be familiay, but no vulgur. Keep your current friends close, don t trust every person that you meet. Don t fight but if you have too, you better win. Listen to everyone but don t tell them your thoughts. Wear appropriate clothes. The clothes make the man. Don t give, and don t borrow. Be true to yourself and listen to your conscience. LORD POLONIUS The time invites you; go; your servants tend. LAERTES Farewell, Ophelia; and remember well What I have said to you. OPHELIA 'Tis in my memory lock'd, 90 And you yourself shall keep the key of it. LAERTES Farewell. Exit LORD POLONIUS What is't, Ophelia, be hath said to you? OPHELIA So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet.

34 Ramirez 34 LORD POLONIUS Marry, well bethought: 95 'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late Given private time to you; and you yourself Have of your audience been most free and bounteous: If it be so, as so 'tis put on me, And that in way of caution, I must tell you, You do not understand yourself so clearly 100 As it behoves my daughter and your honour. What is between you? give me up the truth. Comment [a29]: You re disrespecting me because you re not acting like a daughter of a king should act. If you are too free with your body and your heart, you will have nobodys respect. OPHELIA He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders Of his affection to me. LORD POLONIUS Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl, 105 Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. Do you believe his tenders, as you call them? OPHELIA I do not know, my lord, what I should think. Comment [a30]: Shes very confused at this point about her true feelings for Hamlet. LORD POLONIUS Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby;

35 Ramirez 35 That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay, 110 Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly; Or--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, Comment [a31]: Don t trust Hamlet, his words are not real. Running it thus--you'll tender me a fool. OPHELIA My lord, he hath importuned me with love In honourable fashion. 115 LORD POLONIUS Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to. Comment [a32]: He is giving her all of the things to say to her so she can love him, not the fashion he should be giving if he was really in love. OPHELIA And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord, With almost all the holy vows of heaven. LORD POLONIUS Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know, When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul 120 Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter, Giving more light than heat, extinct in both, Even in their promise, as it is a-making, You must not take for fire. From this time Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence; Set your entreatments at a higher rate 125 Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,

36 Ramirez 36 Believe so much in him, that he is young And with a larger tether may he walk Than may be given you: in few, Ophelia, Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers, 130 Not of that dye which their investments show, But mere implorators of unholy suits, Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds, The better to beguile. This is for all: I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth, Have you so slander any moment leisure, 135 Comment [a33]: Do not believe anything he says because he has done this before. What you wear is what you want people to think of you. His words is just to make it look like he really likes you. Its just to trick you. As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet. Look to't, I charge you: come your ways. OPHELIA I shall obey, my lord. Exeunt Summary: In this scene we heard more from Ophelia and her brother and their father. Ophelia and her brother seem to like each other through the movie and when he speaks to her about Hamlet, it seems more as jealousy because of how he really feels for her. Her father and Laertes spoke to Ophelia about not trusting Hamlet and basically that he is only using her for her body and he does not really love you.

37 Ramirez 37 SCENE IV. The platform. (34:57 38:12) Enter, HORATIO, and MARCELLUS The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold. HORATIO It is a nipping and an eager air. What hour now? HORATIO I think it lacks of twelve. No, it is struck. 5 HORATIO Indeed? I heard it not: then it draws near the season Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk. A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off, within What does this mean, my lord?

38 Ramirez 38 The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels; And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, 10 The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his pledge. HORATIO Is it a custom? Ay, marry, is't: But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance. This heavy-headed revel east and west Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations: They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase 20 Soil our addition; and indeed it takes From our achievements, though perform'd at height, The pith and marrow of our attribute. So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, 25 As, in their birth--wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin-- By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,

39 Ramirez 39 Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens 30 The form of plausive manners, that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,-- Their virtues else--be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo-- 35 Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault: the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal. HORATIO Look, my lord, it comes! 40 Enter Ghost Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable shape 45 That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me! Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell

40 Ramirez 40 Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, 50 Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again. What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, 55 Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do? Comment [a34]: Ghost beckons HORATIO It beckons you to go away with it, 60 As if it some impartment did desire To you alone. MARCELLUS Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground: But do not go with it. 65 HORATIO No, by no means.

41 Ramirez 41 It will not speak; then I will follow it. HORATIO Do not, my lord. Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life in a pin's fee; 70 And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself? It waves me forth again: I'll follow it. HORATIO What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff 75 That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness? think of it: Comment [a35]: The very place puts toys of desperation, 80 Without more motive, into every brain That looks so many fathoms to the sea And hears it roar beneath.

42 Ramirez 42 It waves me still. Go on; I'll follow thee. 85 MARCELLUS You shall not go, my lord. Hold off your hands. HORATIO Be ruled; you shall not go. My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body 90 As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve. Still am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen. By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me! I say, away! Go on; I'll follow thee. Exeunt Ghost and HORATIO He waxes desperate with imagination. 95 Comment [a36]: Horatio s comment sets the stage for Hamlet s insanity.

43 Ramirez 43 MARCELLUS Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him. HORATIO Have after. To what issue will this come? MARCELLUS Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Comment [a37]: There is something strange going on in Denmark and it is going to be bad. HORATIO Heaven will direct it. MARCELLUS Nay, let's follow him. 100 Exeunt Hamlet explains the celebration and how it gives the world a negative opinon on Denmark. Hamlet says he was embarrassed by the king s celebration especially because it was his mother. Hamlet and the ghost meet eye to eye. The ghost summons Hamlet to him to speak about what he needs to tell him.

44 Ramirez 44 SCENE V. Another part of the platform. (38:12 51:13) Enter GHOST and Where wilt thou lead me? speak; I'll go no further. Ghost Mark me. I will. Ghost My hour is almost come, When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames Must render up myself. Alas, poor ghost! Ghost Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold. Speak; I am bound to hear.

45 Ramirez 45 Ghost So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear. What? Ghost I am thy father's spirit, Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, Comment [a38]: He had died without confessing his sins, so he was stuck in purgatory until his sins were written on earth. I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine: But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list! If thou didst ever thy dear father love-- O God!

46 Ramirez 46 Ghost Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. Comment [a39]: Do whatever you have to do to get revenge. Murder! Ghost Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural. Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge. Comment [a40]: Ghost I find thee apt; And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear: 'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father's life

47 Ramirez 47 Now wears his crown. Comment [a41]: King Claudius is the one who killed Hamlet s father. O my prophetic soul! My uncle! Ghost Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,-- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen: Comment [a42]: O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there! From me, whose love was of that dignity That it went hand in hand even with the vow I made to her in marriage, and to decline Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor To those of mine! But virtue, as it never will be moved, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd, Will sate itself in a celestial bed, And prey on garbage. But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air; Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard, My custom always of the afternoon, Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,

48 Ramirez 48 With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of my ears did pour The leperous distilment; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body, And with a sudden vigour doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; And a most instant tetter bark'd about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, All my smooth body. Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd: Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd, No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head: Comment [a43]: O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible! If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not; Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest. But, howsoever thou pursuest this act, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,

49 Ramirez 49 To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once! Comment [a44]: The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire: Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me. Exit O all you host of heaven! O earth! what else? And shall I couple hell? O, fie! Hold, hold, my heart; And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven! Comment [a45]: O most pernicious woman! O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables,--meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark:

50 Ramirez 50 Writing So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word; It is 'Adieu, adieu! remember me.' I have sworn 't. MARCELLUS HORATIO [Within] My lord, my lord,-- MARCELLUS [Within] Lord Hamlet,-- HORATIO [Within] Heaven secure him! So be it! HORATIO [Within] Hillo, ho, ho, my lord! Hillo, ho, ho, boy! come, bird, come. Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS

51 Ramirez 51 MARCELLUS How is't, my noble lord? HORATIO What news, my lord? O, wonderful! HORATIO Good my lord, tell it. No; you'll reveal it. HORATIO Not I, my lord, by heaven. MARCELLUS Nor I, my lord. How say you, then; would heart of man once think it? But you'll be secret?

52 Ramirez 52 HORATIO MARCELLUS Ay, by heaven, my lord. There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. HORATIO There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this. Why, right; you are i' the right; And so, without more circumstance at all, I hold it fit that we shake hands and part: You, as your business and desire shall point you; For every man has business and desire, Such as it is; and for mine own poor part, Look you, I'll go pray. HORATIO These are but wild and whirling words, my lord. Comment [a46]: I'm sorry they offend you, heartily; Yes, 'faith heartily.

53 Ramirez 53 HORATIO There's no offence, my lord. Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio, And much offence too. Touching this vision here, It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you: For your desire to know what is between us, O'ermaster 't as you may. And now, good friends, As you are friends, scholars and soldiers, Give me one poor request. HORATIO What is't, my lord? we will. Never make known what you have seen to-night. HORATIO MARCELLUS My lord, we will not. Nay, but swear't. HORATIO

54 Ramirez 54 In faith, My lord, not I. MARCELLUS Nor I, my lord, in faith. Upon my sword. MARCELLUS We have sworn, my lord, already. Indeed, upon my sword, indeed. Ghost [Beneath] Swear. Ah, ha, boy! say'st thou so? art thou there, truepenny? Come on--you hear this fellow in the cellarage-- Consent to swear. HORATIO Propose the oath, my lord.

55 Ramirez 55 Never to speak of this that you have seen, Swear by my sword. Ghost [Beneath] Swear. Hic et ubique? then we'll shift our ground. Come hither, gentlemen, And lay your hands again upon my sword: Never to speak of this that you have heard, Swear by my sword. Ghost [Beneath] Swear. Well said, old mole! canst work i' the earth so fast? A worthy pioner! Once more remove, good friends. HORATIO O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!

56 Ramirez 56 And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come; Here, as before, never, so help you mercy, How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on, That you, at such times seeing me, never shall, With arms encumber'd thus, or this headshake, Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase, As 'Well, well, we know,' or 'We could, an if we would,' Or 'If we list to speak,' or 'There be, an if they might,' Or such ambiguous giving out, to note That you know aught of me: this not to do, Comment [a47]: So grace and mercy at your most need help you, Swear. Ghost [Beneath] Swear. Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! They swear So, gentlemen, With all my love I do commend me to you:

57 Ramirez 57 And what so poor a man as Hamlet is May do, to express his love and friending to you, God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together; And still your fingers on your lips, I pray. The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right! Nay, come, let's go together. Exeunt Hamlet finds out how his father died and who killed him, Hamlet s uncle. They explain detail by detail on how he killed Hamlet s father. Hamlet s dad tells Hamlet to not clutter his own mind, meaning to stay sane. And to not hurt his mother. But also to do whatever he has to for his revenge. The ghost and Hamlet make Horatio and Marcellus swear that no matter how crazy Hamlet sounded, that they will not tell a soul about them seeing the ghost.

58 ACT II Ramirez 58

59 Ramirez 59 ACT II (51:13-58:09) SCENE I. A room in POLONIUS' house. Enter POLONIUS and REYNALDO LORD POLONIUS Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo. REYNALDO I will, my lord. LORD POLONIUS You shall do marvelous wisely, good Reynaldo, Before you visit him, to make inquire Of his behavior. 5 Comment [a48]: Polonius tells Reynaldo to spy on his son before he meets with him. REYNALDO My lord, I did intend it. LORD POLONIUS Marry, well said; very well said. Look you, sir, Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris; And how, and who, what means, and where they keep, What company, at what expense; and finding 10 By this encompassment and drift of question That they do know my son, come you more nearer Than your particular demands will touch it:

60 Ramirez 60 Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him; As thus, 'I know his father and his friends, 15 And in part him: ' do you mark this, Reynaldo? REYNALDO Ay, very well, my lord. LORD POLONIUS 'And in part him; but' you may say 'not well: But, if't be he I mean, he's very wild; Addicted so and so:' and there put on him 20 What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank As may dishonour him; take heed of that; But, sir, such wanton, wild and usual slips Comment [a49]: Polonius tells Reynaldo to lie about Laerters but don t take it too far. As are companions noted and most known To youth and liberty. 25 REYNALDO As gaming, my lord. LORD POLONIUS Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling, Drabbing: you may go so far. REYNALDO My lord, that would dishonour him. Comment [a50]: He s saying that Sleeping with prostitutes is not a good rep for someone so he will not go that far to say that.

61 Ramirez 61 LORD POLONIUS 'Faith, no; as you may season it in the charge 30 You must not put another scandal on him, That he is open to incontinency; That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly That they may seem the taints of liberty, The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind, 35 A savageness in unreclaimed blood, Of general assault. REYNALDO But, my good lord,-- LORD POLONIUS Wherefore should you do this? REYNALDO Ay, my lord, 40 I would know that. LORD POLONIUS Marry, sir, here's my drift; And I believe, it is a fetch of wit: You laying these slight sullies on my son, As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' the working, Mark you, 45

62 Ramirez 62 Your party in converse, him you would sound, Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes The youth you breathe of guilty, be assured He closes with you in this consequence; 'Good sir,' or so, or 'friend,' or 'gentleman,' 50 According to the phrase or the addition Of man and country. REYNALDO Very good, my lord. LORD POLONIUS And then, sir, does he this--he does--what was I about to say? By the mass, I was about to say 55 something: where did I leave? Comment [a51]: He didn t lose his spot, he was just pretending to make sure Reynaldo was paying attention. REYNALDO At 'closes in the consequence,' at 'friend or so,' and 'gentleman.' LORD POLONIUS At 'closes in the consequence,' ay, marry; He closes thus: 'I know the gentleman; 60 I saw him yesterday, or t' other day, Or then, or then; with such, or such; and, as you say, There was a' gaming; there o'ertook in's rouse;

63 Ramirez 63 There falling out at tennis:' or perchance, 'I saw him enter such a house of sale,' 65 Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth. See you now; Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth: And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, Comment [a52]: Find out the way things are really going, but by lying. Same as comment 43 but in fishing terms. With windlasses and with assays of bias, 70 By indirections find directions out: So by my former lecture and advice, Comment [a53]: Find out the way things are REALLY going, but by lying. Shall you my son. You have me, have you not? REYNALDO My lord, I have. LORD POLONIUS God be wi' you; fare you well. 75 REYNALDO Good my lord! LORD POLONIUS Observe his inclination in yourself. REYNALDO I shall, my lord.

64 Ramirez 64 LORD POLONIUS And let him ply his music. REYNALDO Well, my lord. 80 LORD POLONIUS Farewell! Exit REYNALDO Enter OPHELIA How now, Ophelia! what's the matter? OPHELIA O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted! LORD POLONIUS With what, i' the name of God? OPHELIA My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, 85 Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced; No hat upon his head; his stockings foul'd, Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ancle;